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It is to be expected that the main headlines coming out the 2017 Frankfurt motor show concern a car that to 99.9 per cent of the population will be a complete irrelevance. What’s odd on this particular occasion is that the car in question - the £2 million Mercedes-AMG Project One - has been met with all the enthusiasm of a paid bar at a wedding.

Criticisms seem to take two forms. First, it simply looks too generic for what is in theory the ultimate Mercedes (that’s despite a gargantuan fin on its rear bodywork). Second is that people appear to be finding it difficult to muster much excitement about a hypercar that’s powered not by a 6.0-litre V12 or 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, but a meagre 1.6....